Famous Quotes: Government

New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national model. Now, unfortunately, it's a national disgrace. Sometimes, the corruption in Albany could even make Boss Tweed blush.
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Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals.
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Some people object to libertarian ideas because there are too many irresponsible people in the world - people who will cause trouble if the government doesn't restrain them.
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Now, in New Jersey, we have more government workers per square mile than any state in America. But since I've been governor we now have fewer people on the state payroll at any time since Christie Whitman left office in January 2001. That's the right direction, Mr. President, not the wrong direction.
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The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions.
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If human beings are fundamentally good, no government is necessary; if they are fundamentally bad, any government, being composed of human beings, would be bad also.
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Under the administration of George W. Bush, you will recall, federal spending grew pretty significantly. At the same time, the number of people directly employed by the federal government shrank. One of the factors that explained the difference was contracting.
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I don't have any problem with government helping entrepreneurs and businesses.
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All government, of course, is against liberty.
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Government is essentially immoral.
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It's opportunity. It's opportunity, not a check from government - it's opportunity that has always driven America and defined us as Americans.
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I was pretty much the government's poster boy for what I had done.
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We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.
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If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government, to protect liberty - not to run your personal life, not to run the economy, and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live.
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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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I believe that for the small numbers of Jewish people in the United States, they exercise a tremendous amount of influence on the affairs of government.
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First of all, I can't forget my first responsibility - which is to be the Leader of the Opposition and that's to provide an alternative government.
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My government, you can be assured, will be less focused on personalities. It is about treating people with respect. I think complaining about the community not being able to see the wisdom of our ideas is the wrong approach.
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Conservatives are winning offices, and champions of big government are cleaning out their desks right now.
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The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.
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